CENSORED!
AUCKLAND picture theatre announcement: "Mixed audiences prohibited by order of the N.Z. censor. Women in the dress circle, men downstairs." He's the censor — culling "flicks," And he's up to all the tricks Of the photo" play's appeal to sex and crime: Should a neat-limbed screendom vix' Expose too much when she kicks, Well, she finds she steps to scissorsclipping time. He comes down on Tommy Mix, Like a ton of new-made bricks, If he's making love too hot to meet the eye; And when lover Richard Dix Makes his hisses passion-licks, You can bet your life it's not for you and I. When a picture nearly clicks With some stuff on hygienics, He preserves the public moral from its snares; Just to mitigate the fix, Says the audience can't mix — "Women in the circle and men downstairs."
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NZ Truth, Issue 1152, 29 December 1927, Page 4
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138CENSORED! NZ Truth, Issue 1152, 29 December 1927, Page 4
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